O2 mobile (3g) wireless router

Loki666

Hi, did a search & couldn't locate this being raised before:
I was told by O2 that (unlike Vodafone) their wireless home router does not use the landline but the mobile/3g wireless dongle thing, which then broadcasts the wireless 'bubble' about your house, up to whatever the effective radius is. I have very awkward 'sweet spots' for 3g in my house in Huntstown (standing on a stool in front of my kids bedroom window upstairs, the front porch etc.). So my question is this: in theory, if I put the wireless router in a 'sweet spot', even if that means velcro-ing the wretched thing half way up a window, would it then re-broadcast the halfway decent signal it is getting from being in the sweet spot to the rest of the house? I do know that block walls and so on would be a factor but the question is more on the theory of the idea rather than the precise practice....Any informed advice would be greatly appreciated...I am THIS close to building one of those oil-drum things they are using to create a wi-fi network in Kabul :mad:

Loki666

p.s. have tried to date Vodafone 3g and now O2 = same sweet spots, perhaps they both rent space on the same local mast....Meteor is next on the list if my idea won't work. Ironically I had really great signal in most of the house with my e220 Huwaei from Vodafone, however that particular device stopped being picked up by the computer so I was told I could upgrade it to the K3765 which, while it is I think in theory capable of greater speeds, has (from what I can glean at least) a weaker aerial so I get speeds in Bps rather than Kbps.

drunkmonkey

In theory yes just remember the wireless signal will also deteriatre the further you get from the router, is there no fixed line supplier available in huntstown, if there is you'd be better off dumping the 02 router if you need a good Internet connection.

Loki666

drunkmonkey wrote: »

In theory yes just remember the wireless signal will also deteriatre the further you get from the router, is there no fixed line supplier available in huntstown, if there is you'd be better off dumping the 02 router if you need a good Internet connection.

Hi - thanks so much for replying. RE: Fixed line, unbelievably, given the number of tech companies about the place, it used to be the case that there was no fixed line in my area but I haven't checked this year really. I am not sure about UPC but I am with Sky for telly so I think that might be an issue. Regarding Eircom and the companies piggy-backing on their infrastructure, I was told [last year] that the local PBX link needed to be upgraded...As to what I need, the old, dearly missed E220 workhorse gave me enough speed at its best to download a film in a couple of hours and when it did dip to HSDPA was still plenty fast enough for work. The very odd time it would dip further to GPRS but this was infrequent and usually at times where I chalked it down to contention (9 am, 5pm and the like). I also work occasionally from the office or other locations and found the dongle really handy so if possible I'd like to stick with mobile for work reasons. My personal surfing is really just that, newspaper sites and so on, no online games or heavy DL.

watty

See here http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1147

Sponge Bob

Loki666 wrote: »

So my question is this: in theory, if I put the wireless router in a 'sweet spot', even if that means velcro-ing the wretched thing half way up a window, would it then re-broadcast the halfway decent signal it is getting from being in the sweet spot to the rest of the house?

That is exactly why there is a market for these. They must be set up in the sweet spot where the signal is, frequently in the attic and my favourite one was in an outside box with the dongle hung out in the open air in a plastic bag.